Don’t like your stepkid? You’re not alone! Here’s 5 legit reasons why that can happen and what to do when you don’t love your stepkid.

Learn 6 truths about stepparenting and blended family life we wish our partners understood.

Are stepparents seriously not allowed to discipline our stepkids? Even though we share a house with them??

Should your partner or the kids come first in a blended family? Here's why your relationship needs to take top priority.

Love in a stepfamily is different… so maybe it’s okay for stepparents to fake love till we feel love.

How do you deal with a spying or lying stepkid when their actions cross the line from "kids will be kids" into toxic behavior?

Your stepkids’ transition day is hard on everyone — including stepparents! These tips can help lower those stress levels down to a less insane decibel.

What's a stepparent's role look like after disengaging? Here are 4 non-parenting ways you can still be a supportive stepparent.

It took me years to realize that what I wanted my role to be as a stepmom and what actually worked for me, my stepdaughter, and our family were two very different things.

Need to take a step back from stepparenting? Here's 3 ways you can explain disengaging to your partner in a positive way.

Worried your stepkids hate you? Weirdly enough, just because your stepkids reject you doesn't mean they actually hate you!

I spent years frustrated that our stepfamily didn’t feel how I thought a family should feel. I wanted a clear sign we were blended. Little did I know we already counted as a “real” family!

So much about stepparenting feel like we’re blending our family wrong or messing our stepkids up. How can we move past that?

At what point are you considered a stepparent? Do you have to be married first? How many hoops do we have to jump through before we’re acknowledged as an important part of our stepkid’s family?

Do we really need to call ourself "bonus moms" instead of "stepmoms"? Let’s stop apologizing for the very valid role we play in our stepfamily and own the stepparenting title with pride.

Our blended family invented new holiday traditions only by letting go of our ideas of how we thought the holidays “should” be celebrated... and when.

Now that we know how Game of Thrones ends, looking back at the beginning brings up all kinds of obvious-in-retrospect foreshadowing. Kinda like blending a family.

As much as we assume that every good stepparent unconditionally loves their stepkids from day one, that's NOT the typical experience. Love is a bonus, not a requirement.